M is for Monocle

Treat your toddlers to artist Greg Paprocki’s depictions of the era’s lighter-than-air airships and big-wheeled bicycles built for two. It was also an era that saw the invention of electricity, the exploration of some of the last remaining wild frontiers on Earth, and the introduction of lasting literary creations such as Charles Dickens’s Scrooge and Arthur Conan Doyle’s Sherlock Holmes.